Transmission, Hari Kunzru
Transmission, Hari Kunzru
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Transmission

Author: Hari Kunzru

Narrator: Hari Kunzru

Unabridged: 9 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/2004


Synopsis

In a networked world, anything can change n an instant, and sometimes everything does....

Transmission, Hari Kunzru's new novel of love and lunacy, immigration and immunity, introduces a daydreaming Indian computer geek whose luxurious fantasies about life in America are shaken when he accepts a California job offer.
Lonely and naïve, Arjun Mehta spends his days as a lowly assistant virus tester and pining away for his free-spirited colleague Christine. Arjun gets laid-off like so many of his Silicon Valley peers. In an act of desperation to keep his job, he releases a mischievous but destructive virus around the globe that has major unintended consequences. As world order unravels, so does Arjun's sanity, in a rollicking cataclysm that reaches Bollywood and, not so coincidentally, the glamorous star of Arjun's favorite Indian movie.
Award-winning novelist Hari Kunzru was hailed as a "modern-day Kipling," for his bestselling debut, The Impressionist. With this exuberant follow-up, Kunzru takes an ultracontemporary turn in a stylish, playful, and wicked exploration of life at the click of a mouse.

About The Author

Hari Kunzru, author of the award-winning and bestselling novel The Impressionist, was named as one of Granta's "20 Best Fiction Writers Under 40." The Impressionist was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist; was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and a British Book Award; and was one of Publishers Weekly's Best Novels of 2002. Kunzru has written for a variety of English and international publications, including The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, The London Review of Books, and Wired. He lives in London.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ruben on February 12, 2023

My second novel by Hari Kunzru. I listened to the audiobook read by the author, who has a very pleasant voice. What I loved the first time around in Red Pill was also present in Transmission: intelligent writing, a sense of humour, an original if somewhat convoluted plot, and a sensitive but not mel......more

Goodreads review by Ian on November 15, 2017

That’s Entertainment Having read an excess of tortuous unreadababble Americocaine (anti-)novels this year, I picked up this book, thinking it would be serious literary fiction from a reputable (i.e., establishment) publisher. Imagine my surprise when, for approximately 250 out of 280 pages, it turned......more

Goodreads review by Ruby on June 07, 2013

Transmit (transitive verb): a : to send or convey from one person or place to another: b : to cause or allow to spread: as (1) : to convey by inheritance or heredity: (2) : to convey (infection) abroad or to another Kunzru's book covers the entirety of that definition. The lead character, Arjun M......more

Goodreads review by George on May 30, 2023

Hari Kunzru is an amazing writer! This is a brilliant novel of globalization and displacement. Skilled workers may be imported from the "undeveloped" world to North America but are not necessarily respected. The asperger’s questionnaire is brilliant and oh so true. At least here the virus unleashed on......more

Goodreads review by Peter on April 07, 2019

Transmission is the story of the havoc wreaked on society by a computer virus named Leela, named after a fictional Bollywood star named Leela Zahir. At its center is a young Indian computer programmer, Arjun Mehta, who releases the virus when his tenuous, exploitative job with a Silicon Valley antiv......more